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Uprooted Episode 5: Farm to School Month!

It's Farm to School Month! Erin McKee and Katie Costello talk about IATP's Farm to Institution program. Then Ben Lilliston joins the podcast to talk about the Local FARMS act that was just introduced in Congress.

Nanotechnology enabled fertilizer: Salvation for industrial-scale agriculture?

As farmers begin the fall harvest, a downstream result of their use of fertilizer blooms in Lake Erie, 700 square miles of algae, some of it toxic.

Applying Nanotechnology to Fertilizer: Rationales, research, risks and regulatory challenges

Link to PDF of the full report with figures and endnotes.

CFFE Sign-on Letter to the Agriculture Legislative Staff

ATTN: Agriculture Leg. Staff  Dear Chairmen and Ranking Members: 

Filling the Local Foods Gap in the Farm Bill

When we started our partnership with St. Cloud’s Reach Up Head Start program, Nutrition Services Coordinator Haley Anderson knew she wanted to source locally produced food for her kids–she just wasn’t sure how to do it. Building in nutrition education for kids and families was a straightforward process.

Uprooted Episode 4: An update on NAFTA talks

Josh Wise talks with Sharon Treat, IATP's Senior Attorney, who was at the last round of NAFTA talks in Ottawa. Sharon gives an update what has been happening at the talks, how trade talks are supposed to work, and offers an analysis on the reckless speed and nature of the negotiations so far.

A Case Study on the Agroecological Transition in Mexico

By minimizing the use of external inputs and decreasing dependency on global commodity markets, agroecological approaches enable small farmers to survive some of the challenges posed by climate change, volatile prices and unfavourable government policies.

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Agroecological Transition in Mexico

A Case Study on the Agroecological Transition in Mexico

CETA’s bitter taste for European Food and Agriculture

CETA: European Food and Agriculture Standards Under Threat

What’s at stake for farmers, food and the land in a new NAFTA

The biotech trade empire strikes back—at USDA!

Counting the Costs of Agricultural Dumping

Don't Believe the Carbon Market Hype

Two ways to tackle livestock’s contribution to the climate crisis

China's dominance in the global meat market: the Chinese translation of the "Global Meat Complex"

Industrial production of poultry gives rise to deadly strains of bird flu H5Nx

Farm to Head Start in Minnesota: Planting the Seeds for a Community-centered Food System

The Climate Cost of Free Trade

2016 State Convening Final Report

Seeds of Corporate Power vs Farmers' Rights: We need to start tilting the field back in favor of farmers and the environment

Indicators as a tool for changing policy and practice

Selling Off the Farm

The Clean Power Plan

Five key takeaways from the TTIP leak for food and farming systems

U.S. tries to export its biotech deregulatory regime

NAFTA and the challenge for water justice

What should a post-TPP U.S. trade and investment policy look like, if it is to protect not only workers, farmers, consumers and the environment in the U.S., but also in other countries? What can individuals and organizations committed to water justice do to make sure that the rights to water, food and health of rural and urban communities in North America are upheld? These issues will be very much on the agenda at the next round of NAFTA talks, starting October 11.